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What I did do for Uni was turn up late for every single IT/maths class for the better part of a year. Hell it was 9am monday morning and I had to walk through a forest to get to the Uni. Every week, and without shame, I would stroll in several minutes late into a full lecture.

While I attended every class without fail I figured if I added up all the 5 minutes I probably missed a total of about two classes worth of time.

Got a U at GCSE Welsh after writing in English why I didn't want to do it.

Was stupid of me.

A D in my 7th grade math.

kronk wrote:C in Electrical Engineering.

As a Chemical Engineer, let me tell you that when Prof says "Just think of electricity in a wire like a fluid flowing through a pipe!" I want to bang my head on a desk or a wall. It's NOT the same.

Funny, that's exactly how I thought of electricity as an ME. I still think of it that way. The steady state math is all the same so whether it's a mechanical, hydraulic, or electrical system doesn't matter all that much.

Worst grade I got was a C in torts.

In my junior year in high school, I got an F in geometry, I just didn't get it and for some reason the teacher decided that he didn't want to waste his time with students who needed to slightest bit of help, which I and several others figured out pretty quickly, because when he called on one of his favorites, he was all sweet and used their first name, but whenever one of us raised out hands to ask a question, he snapped out our last name and before we'd finished asking the question blurted out "If you would just read the textbook you wouldn't have to ask!" After awhile, we just quit bothering and resigned ourselves to flunking that class. I also got a D- in Algebra in my senior year, because I figured out just enough to write in a few letters and/or numbers at random. Very few people in the class did well at that either. The teacher was too enchanted with his Rubik's cube to pay much attention in class. That's why I encourage people to move away from Kansas City Kansas if they want to have kids.

I knew this kid in the 6th grade who got a -10 on a spelling test. He didn't get any answers right, and he lost an additional 10 points for forgetting his name on the sheet.

Yes, I'm sorry about that MajorTom.

I failed math in 5th grade. We had to do these stupid timed tests over basic mathematics (+-*/) and just turned the papers over and drew pretty pictures on the back.

I almost failed math in 6th grade as well. I'd do about half my homework and tests before I'd start drawing in the margins. My math teacher thought I needed special ed classes and had me take some math placement test to prove she was right.

After the test I got to start taking high school math classes. Apparently I was just bored...

Failed reading because I didn't write any journals.

Failed music because I wrote a fake paper (as in, made it up),
got an A, and then got turned in by a classmate (my own fault for
hacking the system).

Failed art because I didn't do a thing in class.

Got a D in calculus and then got college credit for calculus on
the strength of the placement exams.

halonachos wrote:

Khornholio wrote:Calc 3 in Uni. Got a 34 the first time. Got a 61 the second. The prof had the thickest accent too, which didn't help. That and I was most likely hungover or baked during class.

My Calculus 3 teacher had an accent, thought he was Australian, turns out he was Scottish. Thought my Physics professor was Scottish, turns out he was Australian.

Anyways, couldn't "carcurate the snopes")horrible Chinese accent) in Calculus 2 and got an F the first time around, got a C the second time around.

Yeah. I know what you mean. I had no idea what 'chine deta' was for like two weeks until I asked someone sitting next to me. Oh...Sin theta. Right.

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:It's a U, that's right an ungraded......

This.

I'm somewhat disturbed by folk who claim to have never got below a C.

Always did really well in high school and college. Except a psychology final. I decided to sleep and guess on the final. High school finals were 20 percent of are overall grades. 30/100. Only class I failed.

Not counting primary school, because grades there aren't necessarily based on grasp of the material (which is an issue in and of itself), the worst grades I've gotten were a C- in Spanish 201, and a C+ in Quantitative Theories of Policy Analysis (too much drinking, not enough weekend lab attendance).

20% in Year 7 English. I didn't try because I hated my teacher and he was biased against me anyway.

I manaed to get a D in Higher geography. I don't write particularry fast, and there were no computers available, so I wound up completing something like half of the questions in time (though I think one of my answers was related to monster trucks). It didn't help that throughout the year the majority of our class time was devoted to watching Bear Grylls and other such survivalists eating cute little animals (whilst the teacher randomly said and in the background there you can see a mountain, got that?). Yeah, the Scottish educations system is just peachy. ^^

Ogryn wrote:Hi, Dakka. So, what has been your worst grade ever? For me, gotta be that C- back in middle school.

Oh god, that's so bad! You're a bad person! Try harder!

22% in chemistry last year, although I'll probably top that with a 5% in architectual drafting this year, If I'm lucky.

I consider it a sport to get the worst grade possible in classes I don't need or want. I literally didn't show up to a class a single day and got a 36%. I was irate. I was sincerely counting on the fabled 0%, but alas..... I was unsuccessful.

After skimming the thread, it seems like I'm the absolute worst student on dakka

Since I started college, the lowest grade one gotten is a B+.

High School was another matter entirely.

Monster Rain wrote:Since I started college, the lowest grade one gotten is a B+.

High School was another matter entirely.

Tell us, o wise rain of monsters

Pah! Even my blood type is A.

I failed Gym class. That was the worst Ive personally done. And really, it was only because I didnt ever participate in that class.

KingCracker wrote:I failed Gym class. That was the worst Ive personally done. And really, it was only because I didnt ever participate in that class.

Failed, I got banned from it, kicked off my GCSE sports science course. School was scared they would need to call another ambulance for me, had a lot of knee problems as a teenager, so to try and stop me causing more damage, was banned from all sports. Didn't work too well, still managed to hurt them by being assaulted and slips.

I almost forgot 7th grade English! That was the first year that they allowed us to write book reports on any book, not just those in the school library. I had just gotten done reading George Orwell's Animal Farm of my own accord, and so I pencil-whipped out what I thought was a brilliant report on it. The teacher refused to accept it because she claimed that was a college-level book and I couldn't have possible understood it. She obviously didn't even read the report. She gave me a second chance, so I wrote another report on another favorite book, Watership Down. Again she not only refused to accept it, but claimed it was completely unacceptable for me to have read it, because she claimed it was subversive. (I know, that was the first "Wait, what?") moment in my life when it came to stupid teachers... So she gave me a third chance, so I gave up and wrote a report on The Hobbit, which I'd read in third grade. So then she calls my parents in for a conference, and apparently I was a hair's breath away from getting stuck in the short bus room. It had something to do with my parents not knowing anything about my book report difficulties and me just sitting there and shrugging my shoulders when asked any questions, because by that time I just didn't care any more. They finally convinced her to accept my report on The Hobbit, for which I receives an F. Pffft!!!

Watership Down is 'subversive'!? That's fething nuts.

warpcrafter wrote:I almost forgot 7th grade English! That was the first year that they allowed us to write book reports on any book, not just those in the school library. I had just gotten done reading George Orwell's Animal Farm of my own accord, and so I pencil-whipped out what I thought was a brilliant report on it. The teacher refused to accept it because she claimed that was a college-level book and I couldn't have possible understood it. She obviously didn't even read the report. She gave me a second chance, so I wrote another report on another favorite book, Watership Down. Again she not only refused to accept it, but claimed it was completely unacceptable for me to have read it, because she claimed it was subversive. (I know, that was the first "Wait, what?") moment in my life when it came to stupid teachers... So she gave me a third chance, so I gave up and wrote a report on The Hobbit, which I'd read in third grade. So then she calls my parents in for a conference, and apparently I was a hair's breath away from getting stuck in the short bus room. It had something to do with my parents not knowing anything about my book report difficulties and me just sitting there and shrugging my shoulders when asked any questions, because by that time I just didn't care any more. They finally convinced her to accept my report on The Hobbit, for which I receives an F. Pffft!!!

That teacher needs a slap, and a hefty dose of reality.

Monster Rain wrote:Since I started college, the lowest grade one gotten is a B+.

High School was another matter entirely.

I think that's down to maturity, I was a gak student at high school, and it sounds arrogant to say it considering I'm not attending University, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't flunk anything these days because I would knuckle down and put plenty of effort in.

Kids make gak students because they feth about all the time eh? When I was at high school I was more interested in trying to get into the girls knickers than reading any books.

Its also the first time I heard this retort..

"I'd love to get into your knickers Sarah!"

"Sorry Matty, there's already one arsehole in my knickers"

Worst? E for Geography GCSE..... I just was not interested for 3 whole years, and boy did that show!

Edit: Matty, that putdown was fantastic! Did you ever win her heart?

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Worst? E for Geography GCSE..... I just was not interested for 3 whole years, and boy did that show!

Edit: Matty, that putdown was fantastic! Did you ever win her heart?

Judging by that put down, I'm going to go with no!

F in grammer school RE end of topic test.
I was shortly dropped from the subject thereafter

kronk wrote:C in Electrical Engineering.

As a Chemical Engineer, let me tell you that when Prof says "Just think of electricity in a wire like a fluid flowing through a pipe!" I want to bang my head on a desk or a wall. It's NOT the same.

My dads a fitter and turner by trade but while he was doing his apprenticeship he also studied what would have been the equivilent of Electrical engineering. So this sort of comment really grates on him. My dad feels your pain.


In school i was on the high end of the average tier. I got consistant D's and C's, I did however once fluke an A+ on a science test. To this day im unsure of how i did it. My worst grade ever was year 7 english. Got a D- for a book report which had an oral componant. I get stage fright with more then about 10 people so due to a combination of subpar book report skills and no oral i got a crappy grade. I suppose though that out right failing a course counts as worse though and i failed my Physics course at TAFE. I didnt understand a bloody word of the subject, so come exam time i waited 5 minutes, wrote "I am a fish" on the top of my paper and saluted as i handed it in.
Best fail ever.

Here i even have a pic to prove it. I edited out my name and student number for obvious reasons.

I got 39% in my higher english prelim last year